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    Can't Hurt To Ask

    So I'm in St. George, Utah down in the SW corner of the state in the red cliffs country. I spot a Deseret Store (LDS/Mormon Thrift Store) its BIG...so figure just maybe there might be a tweed jacket in there. When I walked in I figure it can't hurt to ask so I ask the checkout clerk, "Do you have any men's kilts?" She lit up and said, "Wow, someone else was just in here a couple of days ago and asked me the same thing!"

    So hey...is this a kilt fashion boom or what? - if kilties are checking out the LDS thrift store in St. George!?

    Ron
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    Impressive...so did they?

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    This kiltie keeps an eye on the thrift stores in north Ga! Almost half of my kilts were found in them.

    A bit of advice- look in the womens section. All the kilts I've found have been mixed in with dresses and skirts

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    That was me - just passing through- not, just kidding. But I was a beneficiary of Deseret Industries many times growing up in a single parent family in Salt Lake, I don't think I ever got any tweed though.

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    Well jeez Breeze...now I gotta go back tomorrow on my way out of town. Thanks for the tip. Guess its crazy to expect "normies" to know a man's kilt on sight.

    Ron
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    Quote Originally Posted by Southern Breeze View Post
    This kiltie keeps an eye on the thrift stores in north Ga! Almost half of my kilts were found in them.

    A bit of advice- look in the womens section. All the kilts I've found have been mixed in with dresses and skirts
    You may have started a stampede to all the local thrifts.

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    There are a half dozen Deseret Industries within 20 miles of me I always poke around and look for Kilts but have never asked. I think I will have a friend of mine who manages one down in Provo keep a look out for me.

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    I live in a very "alternative" area of Sonoma County California and I've never seen a person in a kilt (other than myself) just going about their daily business, and my wife (who is a second hand fiend) has never run across a kilt in a thrift shop. I think that the US kilt fashion boom is starting in rural America and gradually, very gradually, working it's way out into the more populated areas--Seattle excepted, of course because of the UK.

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    I've found (commericially made) kilted skirts in thrift stores -- including wrapping the other direction. Not quite the same thing, of course, as a kilt...

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